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February 18, 1987. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since opening in 1987, the museum has acquired a collection of more than 6,000 works by more ...
The Texas Women's Political Caucus was founded by Cotera and other women in 1973. [12] In 1974, she founded the non-profit Chicana Research and Learning Center in Austin, Texas. This information and research center helped to find grant money for research and community projects, with an emphasis on women of color. [ 13 ]
Sterling became an associate curator of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1988. Two years later, she was promoted to curator of modern and contemporary art, and again to chief curator in 1994. She became deputy director in 2001, and finally Director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2008, and has held the position since. [3]
1994 to present. Title. Director of the National Gallery of Art. Term. 2008 to 2019. Kaywin Feldman is an American museum administrator and director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Named on December 11, 2018, Feldman took over from Earl A. Powell III in March 2019. She is the National Gallery of Art's first woman director.
The Washington, DC, museum opens on 21 October with an ambitious show of previously unseen large-scale sculptures and immersive installations. The National Museum of Women in the Arts reopens ...
Suffragist and Civil Rights Activist. Known for. Founder of Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Jessie Daniel Ames (November 2, 1883 – February 21, 1972) was a suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped create the anti-lynching movement in the American South. She was one of the first Southern white ...
The National Museum of Women in the Arts reopens after $67.5M makeover. Elena Goukassian. October 9, 2023 at 12:29 PM. Editor’s Note: ... NMWA’s director of more than 15 years, in an interview
National Association of Women Artists. The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards and prizes, and organizes lectures and special events.